His Providence Never Fails
7th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
As St. Paul points out in today’s Epistle, what did our past life dedicated to sin accomplish for us? Unless we repent, sin leads us to a sad end all alone except enslaved by our vices. In contrast, how happy is the life of one dedicated to prayer! This is something for which one will sacrifice all to gain it. Prayer lifts us to the Trinity and Its Interior Life which perfects charity in us by the gift of wisdom.
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Keep The First Fervor
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 2020
After hearing about Saints John Gualbert, Veronica, Bonaventure, Henry, the Carmelite Sisters of Compiegne and Camillus we had a renewal of the Paschal sacraments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist in the Epistle and Gospel. The Divine Office recounts the story of King David and how his sloth led to sins of adultery and murder. His meekness saved him when his crimes were exposed by the prophet Nathan. We should imitate his repentance and reject the devil and all his works. Receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion faithfully will lead us to union and heaven one day.
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Are We Afraid Of Battle?
5th Sunday After Pentecost 2020
In the Gospel Christ condemns unjust anger and asks us to love our enemies. Will we shirk this duty as a soldier who refuses to go into battle? In the Epistle St. Peter writes that we should be merciful and in return we will receive mercy.
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The Triumph Of His Blood
Feast Of The Precious Blood 2020
This feast marks a victory and stands in thanksgiving for it. Pope Pius IX was exiled from Rome in 1848 by an army of the enemies of the Church. He promised to honor the Precious Blood of Christ after God would restore him to Rome and that happened on the last days of June in 1849. So, the pope fulfilled his promise and instituted the feast. We realize the infinite value of the Blood of God which had been prophesied throughout the Old Testament. The Holy Ghost taught that without the shedding of Blood there would not be redemption. Our Lord completed His mission by dying on the Cross and shedding every drop of His Blood. This Blood continues to save at by every Mass. We must love and thank God always to live with Him in Heaven eventually.
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Our Most Sublime Prayer
3rd Sunday After Pentecost 2020
The Gospel shows Our Lord coming to protect us and this is perfect for Father’s Day as well. When asked how to pray Christ gave us the Our Father. When we receive Holy Communion we are united with Our Lord. We are meant to be saints and must pray and strive for that always. Not to desire sanctity is a sin. We should do everything for our Heavenly Father and someday reach eternal happiness.
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The Essential Devotion
Feast Of The Sacred Heart 2020
Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus must be part of everyone’s life, especially the consecrated who are baptized, confirmed or ordained. The reason for this is that His Human Heart belongs to God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and contains those mysteries that St. Paul alludes to in today’s Epistle. The Mass texts for today tell us more about the Heart of Jesus as revealed starting with the opening of It on the Cross. Private apparitions to St. Margaret Mary gave the impetus for spreading this devotion and the popes have encouraged it throughout the centuries. Many benefits accrue to us by practicing this love and one is the peace and rest that comes to our own heart and soul by learning to be meek and humble like Our Lord.
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We Rest In His Hand
2nd Sunday after Pentecost 2020
Among the themes of the time after Pentecost which we are beginning is the assurance given us by Divine Providence. No matter the crisis we face God is always with us and never tests us beyond our strength. The Holy Ghost reminds us of this through the sacred liturgy which celebrates feasts of consolation like the Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart. Today’s Mass provides us with the same confidence and in the Gospel which describes sufficient and efficacious grace we are cautioned not to allow the concupiscence of the eyes, the flesh and the pride of life to deflect us in our journey towards God and heaven.
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O, Banquet Most Precious
Corpus Christi 2020
We must be thankful for the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and be humbled in its presence. During our long journey to Heaven we must constantly practice docility to God and He will reward us. Christ revealed what we all acknowledge and believe as the essence of the doctrine, namely transubstantiation. Whenever we receive we are close to Heaven and our path there is secure. Those endanger themselves needlessly when they neglect this great sacrament. We are united in the Holy Eucharist through Our Lord’s Real Presence and are so inspired as to make the texts of this Mass, which were composed by St. Thomas, our source of contemplation. The rites of the Mass re-enact the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord.
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Pray All Be Saved
Trinity Sunday 2020
The angelic St. Thomas Aquinas has his feast day this week and we are reminded of his being a patron for the finding of lost items. God is wonderful in His saints. This feast of the Holy Trinity starts a new season of the liturgical year. It is right that this be the case because everything comes from the Father, Son and Holy Ghost and all honor, praise and glory return to the Triune God. This fundamental mystery of Three Divine Persons in One and the Same God is essential for salvation because denial of this prevents one from entering heaven. God has revealed to us His inner workings where the Unbegotten brings forth the Only Begotten and Their mutual Love is the Person of Love, the Holy Ghost. This Trinitarian life goes on within the souls of those in the state of grace and is offered to all. Christ’s final command to the apostles was to go forth and baptize in the name of the Blessed Trinity. We must pray that all will be saved.
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